Major events in the history of the Internet and computers

Internet was only available to certain large universities and the government.

Period: Jan 1, 1969 to Jan 1, 1975

http://education.illinois.edu/wp/commercialism/history-of-the-internet.htm
http://www.internetsociety.org/internet/what-internet/history-internet/brief-history-internet

Steve Wazniak invents the Apple I computer

Jan 1, 1976

http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/apple.html
http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa051599.htm

IBM introduces the PC

Aug 12, 1981

http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/pc25/pc25_birth.html
http://inventors.about.com/od/computersandinternet/a/Ibm-Pc.htm

World wide web became viable for general public

Jan 1, 1991

http://www.nethistory.info/History of the Internet/web.html
http://webfoundation.org/about/vision/history-of-the-web/

Yahoo directory goes online

Jan 1, 1994

http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2048976/Major-Search-Engines-and-Directories
http://www.mcbuzz.com/2011/yahoo-directory-listing-value-worth-cost-depend/

Google goes online

Jan 1, 1997

Created by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. https://www.google.com/about/company/history/
http://www.steegle.com/about/google-101-facts/1-11-how-it-all-began

Youtube was founded

Feb 14, 2005

https://www.youtube.com/yt/about/
http://inventors.about.com/od/xyzstartinventions/a/YouTube.htm

The first tweet was sent

Mar 21, 2006

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/news/story/2012-03-21/twitter-birthday/53684356/1 http://finance.yahoo.com/news/the-first-ever-email--the-first-tweet--and-12-other-famous-internet-firsts-181209886.html

Amazon released first kindle

Nov 1, 2007

http://mashable.com/category/amazon-kindle/
-history-of-amazons-kindle-so-far/
http://gizmodo.com/5844662/the-history-of-amazons-kindle-so-far/

Instagram began

Oct 1, 2010

http://www.forbes.com/sites/limyunghui/2012/04/09/inspiring-insights-by-instagram-ceo-kevin-systrom-the-man-who-built-a-1-billion-startup/ http://webtrends.about.com/od/prof4/a/What-Is-Instagram-Wiki.htm